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With the presidential inauguration only four days away, Donald Trump has not only succeeded in creating a polarizing and violent divisiveness in this country, but he has also jeopardized out relationships with the rest of the world.

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With demands for better living conditions, about 42 inmates in the maximum-security Utah State Prison, 20 miles outside Salt Lake City, went on a hunger strike on Friday. On Monday, the Utah chapter of the ACLU jumped into the fray.

In an ironic twist, Louisiana state health officials are prohibiting scientists who has visited Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea in the past 21 days from attending a meeting on tropical diseases in New Orleans.

Prisons in the United States have become the nation's newest mental health asylums. Not only does the U.S. have the highest incarceration rate of any developing nation, at least half of these inmates have mental health problems.

Every year there is an estimated 1.3 million women who are victims of domestic violence. Meaning one in four will suffer at the hands of an abuser. Around 835,000 men also experience domestic violence from their domestic partners.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – After about two weeks of riots and demonstration, for and against Honduras' interim government.
President Roberto Micheletti finally lifted the curfew that he imposed since the coup d'etat against ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

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Albumen silver print from glass negative; cat. no. 92. This photograph conveys what one author claimed in 1870, that Paris was in essence two cities “quite different and hostile: the city of luxury, surrounded, besieged by the city of misery.”